Sometimes you just want to sit back and relax and read a sweet little book about fatherhood. Sleepless Nights and Kisses for Breakfast: Reflections on Fatherhood is the book for this! Mr. Bussola’s lyrical prose is equal parts shiny and sad. It perfectly captures the...

One of my Facebook friend’s posted this pic from her kids’ Bananagrams game a couple months ago. So great, right? I mean, “penis-poop-they-eat-toot-but” simply can’t be beat. The best part was that the mom was most upset that they spelled...

Hello there….it’s almost WINTER! Season’s Greetings to you whatever you may celebrate, even if it is merely the changing of the light. It is certainly waning, and the tendency is to go inward and hibernate a bit. Sometimes this can be mellow and...

Hi there, Here’s my ode to the “try, try again” format that is parenting life–though in this case, the hinderance may have been more my husband and less my child. Here’s the finished product of my holiday card: Cute, right? However, if...

My old friend Darla is hosting me at her very funny blog She’s a Maineiac today. I don’t mean that Darla is old, though she is older than me, but only ever so slightly, like a year or two, maybe?…but anyway. What I meant was that Darla and I were...

Sometimes in life, and in parenting, it’s helpful to creatively problem-solve – to think outside the box. As much as we’d rather channel our internal Mr. Spock, we are actually quite illogical beings. We may believe we are thinking rationally, but really –...